'The Very Best Of...Sting & The Police' Out Tuesday

Yahoo! Music, Oct 1, 2002 1:00 pm PDT
(10/1/02, 1 p.m. ET) -- Out Tuesday (October 1) from A&M/Universal is The Very Best Of...Sting & The Police. As the title suggests, the 18-song set, an updated and expanded edition of the 1997 album of the same name, is split between some of the biggest songs record both by the Police and by frontman Sting since the group's break-up.

LAUNCH asked drummer Stewart Copeland, now a member of the Doors, how involved he and his ex-bandmates were in selecting the tracks on the album. "I can't say that we had a huge involvement in pulling it together," he said. "The idea was proposed, and which songs are chosen are pretty obvious, really--the hits. Sting has enough hits of his own, and there's enough Police hits to fill up an album without having to look for which non-hits to complete the record."

The Police are on the ballot for possible induction into the next class of the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.

-- Gary Graff, Detroit

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